Changing A Control From Another Form 1

[khowell78737]

How do you reference a control on another form?

I would like to unhide and increment a progress bar on the MDI parent from an MDI child.

I have tried (from the mdi_child):

dim mdiForm as mdi_parent
mdiForm.ProgressBar.Visible = True

and so on... but this doens't seem to work

I have tried referencing the mdi_parent without dimming it but this gives me a different set of properties.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance,
Kevin Howell

 

[chrissie1]

I think you need something like

dim mdiForm as mdi_parent
mdiform = me.mdiparent
mdiForm.ProgressBar.Visible = True

Christiaan Baes
Belgium

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[khowell78737]

Thank you but the line

dim mdiForm as mdi_parent

gives me an error that mdi_parent isn't defined.

Surely there must be an easy way to do this wouldn't you think??

Kevin

 

[khowell78737]

Uh.... boy, am I a big dummy...

Yes, Christiaan you were right... I forgot that I genaricized the code snippet and that wasn't the name of the acutal MDI form... Only after fooling around with it for several minutes did I realize my mistake... <BLUSH>

errrr... I'd give you 2 stars if I could...

Kevin Howell